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Blaise Pascal
June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662
Nationality: French
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: French Philosopher

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

   

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

   

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

   

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

   

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

   

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

   

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

   

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

   

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

   

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

   

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

   

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

   

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

   

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

   

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

   

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

   

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

   

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

   

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

   

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

   

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